diff --git a/sdks/python/pyproject.toml b/sdks/python/pyproject.toml
index 75a6b4fc6ed6..ac674a8bd7d0 100644
--- a/sdks/python/pyproject.toml
+++ b/sdks/python/pyproject.toml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 [build-system]
 requires = [
     "setuptools",
-    "wheel>=0.36.0",
+    "wheel>=0.48.0",
     # Note: after upgrading to grpcio-tools, we must bump protobuf to >=5.0.
     # Currently Blocked on old dependencies of Beam tft extra:
     # https://github.com/apache/beam/issues/37854